18 Dec Lordship Title of Buckhurst ID14130
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The reputed manor of BUCKHURST may be identified with the tithing of 'Bokehurste,' which was represented at the frankpledge court at Hertoke or Ashridge in 1488, and therefore was reckoned to be in the county of Wiltshire. The manor was held in the 15th century by the family of Drew or Dru of Littleton Drew, Wiltshire. In 1453 Thomas Drew and Agnes his wife settled the manor in conjunction with their daughter Margaret and her husband Walter Samborne. Margaret Samborne died in February 1494–5 seised of a tenement in Wokingham called The Cage. The manor of Bucjhurst is not mentioned in her inquisition, but apparently no return was made for Wiltshire. It descended to her son Drew Samborne, who died in January 1506–7. It then devolved on his granddaughter Margaret, the daughter of his son William, and by her marriage to William Lord Windsor passed into that family. Lord Windsor died in 1558, leaving a son Edward, whose heir Henry Lord Windsor conveyed the manor in 1588 to Henry Samborne. In 1611 the latter conveyed it to Thomas and Edward Barker, the former of whom died seised of it in 1630, when it passed to Edward to hold until William the son of Thomas, then aged seventeen, should come of age. Henry Barker of Chiswick, who was dealing with the manor in 1660, was presumably William's heir. Scory Barker of Chiswick, mentioned by Ashmole as impropriator of the tithes, was probably holding this manor also at the end of the 17th century. In 1727 Henry Barker and Barbara his wife conveyed it to Daniel Beard and others. In 1806 the manor was in the possession of Mr. Daniel Wheeler. It passed to Sir Charles Broke Vere, bart., who sold it in 1834 to Samuel Day. In 1837 it was bought by Thomas Hopper, who by will of 1853 left his property to his daughter Jessalina Lady Smith. She sold it to Mr. Samuel Palmer, from whom it was purchased by his son Mr. W. Howard Palmer of Heathlands.
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